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John E. Palmer: An Inventory of His Collection in the Photography Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Collection: Discovery Resources Institution: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Creator: Altermatt, Rebecca J. Date: 1997 Topics: Activists, African-americans, Photography Subject: John E. Palmer -
Joseph L. Norton Papers
Collection: Discovery Resources Institution: M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany Creator: Gianfrancesco, Kim, Bennett, Carolyn Date: Jul. 20, 2017 Topics: Activists, Counselors, Educators, Gay community, Gender identity, Letters, Research, Sexuality, Transgender people Subject: Joseph L. Norton Description: The Joseph L. Norton Papers include notes, correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, publications, and other materials documenting Norton's work as a SUNY Albany professor, a counselor, a teacher, an... -
Josephine Perez Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Keyes, Anna, Perez, Josephine Date: Mar. 23, 2018 Topics: Abuse, Activists, Childhood, Coming out, Drag, Employment discrimination, Ethnic groups, Families, Gender identity, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Housing, LGBTI community, MtFs, Organisations, Police, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual orientation, Street violence, Substance abuse, Transgender community, Transgender prostitutes, Transgender youth, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia Subject: Audre Lorde Project (ALP) Description: Josephine Perez is a trans* advocate who emphasizes a need for better law enforcement protections for transgender women. Josephine experienced sexual violence on multiple occasions and became a sex... -
Kate Bornstein Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Bornstein, Kate Date: Nov. 4, 2019 Topics: Activists, Actors, Buddhism, Cancer, Chat rooms, Childhood, Counseling, Crossdressers, Crowdsourcing, Cults, Death and dying, Drag queens, Ethnic groups, Femininities, Film, FtMs, Fundraising, Gender, Gender diversity, Gender realignment surgery, Health, Health care, Lesbians, LGBTI community, Overweight people, Postmodernism, Religions, Scientology, SM, Suicide, Theatre, Transgender community, Transgender people, Transgender studies, Women's studies, World war II, Wrestling, Writers, Youth Subject: 9/11 Terror Attacks, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, A Thousand and One Ways to Live Without Working, America Online (AOL), B'hai, Barbara Carrellas, Christine Jorgensen, Church of Scientology, Gazebo, Gender Just for the Fun of it: Compassionate Gender Strategies for Divisive Times, Gender Outlaw, Hello Cruel World, I Am Cait, Jamison Green, Laura Vogel, Lee Sullivan, On Our Backs, Power Surge, Tuli Kupferberg, We Croak Description: Kate Bornstein discusses her life as a writer and actor. Moving between growing up in a Jewish family on the New Jersey shore, studying acting in school, joining the Church of Scientology, finding ... -
Kate Doyle Griffths Oral History
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Griffiths, Kate Doyle Date: Apr. 9, 2019 Topics: Activists, AIDS organizations, Biphobia, Black people, Black studies, Class struggle, Cruising (LGBTQ+ culture), Divorce, Education, Family members, LGBTQ+ parents, Peace movement, Politics, Pronoun, Queer theory, Racism, Social classes, Socialism, Strikes and lockouts, Trade unions Subject: 9/11 Terror Attacks, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Betsy Esch, Bob Hasegawa, Caddyshack, City University of New York (CUNY), Donna Cartwright, Elizabeth Esch, Greengrocer Organizing Campaign, Haverford College, Henrietta Hudson's, International Socialist Organization (ISO), Jules Gleeson, Julie Kushner, Limelight Disco, Occupy Wallstreet, Solidarity, Student Peace Coalition, Teamster Rank and File Education and Legal Defense Fund, Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), United Automobile Workers (UAW), United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), UPS Strike Description: "Kate Doyle Griffiths discusses their politicization as a socialist, bringing an anthropological lens to their political, personal and sexual life. Griffiths reflects on growing up in Housten, Texa... -
Keynote Luncheon (Aug. 18, 1994)
Collection: International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy: Annual Proceedings and Newsletters Institution: Digital Transgender Archive Creator: Fee, Jane, Skaer, Laura Elizabeth, Cicotello, Dianna Date: Aug. 1994 Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Anti-discrimination law, Civil rights, Direct action, Discrimination, Employment policies, Gender identity, Law, LGBTI community, Sexual orientation, Stereotypes, Stonewall riots, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender) Subject: Fight Repression of the Right to Expression (FRRE), LeRoy LaBell, Speakers Project to End Discrimination (SPED), The Allies Advisory Group, The Coworker's Manual, The Employer's Guide: Gender Transition on the Job -
Kiara St. James Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: O'Brien, Michelle Esther, St. James, Kiara Date: Mar. 6, 2017 Topics: Acceptance, Activists, Black people, Childhood, Christianity, Civil rights, Drag queens, Education, Families, Femmes, Foster families, Gender identity, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Intimate partner violence, LGBTQ+ sex workers, MtFs, Night life, Organisations, Politics, Poverty, Racism, Transgender community, Transgender rights, Transitioning (Gender), Transphobia Subject: Housing Works, Kiara St. James, New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG) Description: Kiara St. James is the CEO and a co-founder of New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG). Here, she recalls the experiences throughout her life that inform her activism and advocacy today as a tr... -
Kim Watson Oral History
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color Institution: NYC Trans Oral History Project Creator: Watson, Kim Date: Jun. 18, 2019 Topics: Activists, Adoptive parents, AIDS activists, AIDS organizations, Childhood, Drag community, Drag queens, Family members, Gender, Health care, HIV-positive people, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness, Hormones, Intersex, LGBTI community, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Mental health, Parenthood, Psychiatry, Social service organisations, Substance use in LGBTQ+ communities, Transgender community, Transitioning (Gender), Writers Subject: ACT UP, Addicts' Rehabilitation Center (ARC), AIDS WATCH, Bright Point, Bronx Lebanon, Carmen Vasquez, Community Kinship Life (CK Life), Empire [State] Pride Agenda, Escuelitas, HIV Prevention Planning Group (HPG), Marti Adult Day Program, Odyssey House, Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, Pose, RuPaul's Drag Race, Stonewall, The Modern-Day Woman, The Monster, Two Potatoes Description: Kim Watson is co-founder of CK Life, author of The Modern Day Woman, and trans advocate and leader. In this interview, she discusses growing up in Barbados as an intersexed woman, her years of home... -
Lee G. Brewster's Mardi Gras Ball
Collection: Drag Show Programs Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Brewster, Lee G. Date: Feb. 16, 1974 Topics: Activists, Civil rights, Drag, Drag queens, Entertainers, Gender identity, MtFs, Politics, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Transsexualism Subject: 82 Club, Chris Moore, Jewel Box Revue, Pudgy Roberts, Queens Liberation Front, Robin Rogers Description: The Mardi Gras Ball was an annual drag ball hosted in New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s by drag queen and crossdressing activist Lee G. Brewster. -
Les Girls: Boys Will Be Girls Vol. 1 No. 4
Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Holly Publications Date: 1981 Topics: Activists, Asian LGBTQ+ people, Asian transgender people, BIPOC, Black LGBTQ+ people, Black transgender people, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, Hispanic LGBTQ+ people, Hispanic transgender people, LGBTQ+ people of color, MtFs, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transsexual people, Transsexualism Subject: Bambi, Danny La Rue, Holli White, Kirk Weill, Rocio, Sulka Description: Contents: Rocio -- Bambi -- Holli White -- Michelle -- Danny LaRue -- Kirk Weill -- Sulka -- Amanda Winters. -
Les Girls: Boys Will Be Girls Vol. 2 No. 1
Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Holly Publications Date: 1981 Topics: Activists, Asian LGBTQ+ people, Asian transgender people, BIPOC, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ people of color, MtFs, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transsexual people, Transsexualism Subject: Claudia Passot, Hans Crystal, Tiny Description: Contents: The girls of Singapore -- Madame Arthur's -- The queens of Hawaii -- Tiny - the toast of New York -- Transformation, 1960's style -- Claudia Passot - Parisian sensation. -
Les Girls: Boys Will Be Girls Vol. 2 No. 2
Collection: Short Runs of Periodicals Institution: Transgender Oral History Project Creator: Holly Publications Date: 1981 Topics: Activists, Asian LGBTQ+ people, Asian transgender people, BIPOC, Civil rights, Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Drag, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ people of color, MtFs, Transgender culture, Transgender people, Transgender people of color, Transsexual people, Transsexualism Subject: Fanny Lamour Description: Contents: Singapore - an exotic odyssey -- Fanny Lamour - New York sensation -- The queen Mary -- The Les Girls party on Bugis street -- The road to Singapore - my story. -
Lesbian Sex/Gay Sex What's the Difference
Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000) Institution: Independent Voices Creator: Creet, J. Date: Winter 1991 Topics: Activists, Butches, Drag queens, Feminism, Gay rights, Homosexuality, Lesbian culture, Lesbians, LGBTI community, LGBTI rights, Sexuality, Sodomy laws, Soft butches Subject: Ontario Human Rights Code -
Letter from Bet Power to Lou Sullivan (November 10 & 17, 1987)
Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives Creator: Power, Bet, Power, Ben Date: Nov. 10, 1987 to Nov. 17, 1987 Topics: Activists, Civil rights, Communities, Crossdressers, Demonstrations, FtMs, Gay liberation, HIV/AIDS, Leather community, Letters, LGBTQ+ lovers, Liberation movements, Masculinities, Passing (Gender), Self-image, SM, Transgender people Subject: Ben Power, Bet Power, FTM Newsletter, Jesse Jackson, Lou Sullivan, New Alexandria Lesbian Library -
Letter from Bet to Lou Sullivan (May 1, 1990)
Collection: Lou Sullivan Collection Institution: Sexual Minorities Archives Creator: Power, Bet, Power, Ben Date: May 1, 1990 Topics: Activists, Bisexuality, Crossdressers, FtMs, Gay pride, Leather community, Lesbians, Liberation movements, Sexual minorities, SM, Solidarity, Transgender people, Transsexual people Subject: 20th Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Pride Celebration, Ben Power, Bet Power, New Alexandria Lesbian Library, Shelix Description: Some handwritten notes
